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University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California	Friday, December 7, 1973
Learning Center Seen As Key to Cutting Costs
created to coordinate technology with the university’s instructional programs. Because such applications involve complex academic and economic considerations, it is suggested the center be established within the Office of Academic Administration and Research so it will be in close contact with the planning, policy and research elements of administration.
Robert T. Filep. currently associate commissioner and director of the National Center for Educational Technology in Washington, D.C., has been chosen as director of the center. He will join the faculty, in addition, as professor of communications in the Annenberg School of Communications early in January.
“EDUCATIONAL technology improves teaching by using better methods and by looking at teaching as something to study,” Munushian said.
He said he is surprised that so little is going on to improve the product of teaching in universities.
“On very few campuses is there an effort to make
teaching more innovative.” he said. “Little experimentation is going on anywhere but
USC.”
There is a growing interest on the part of government and private foundations in applications oftechnology to all levels of education. Funds are becoming increasingly available.
“SINCE USC will have the Learning Systems Center, we will be in a better position to receive some ofthese funds,” Munushian said.
‘ The financial plight of higher education has resulted in new opportunities for technology to demonstrate that it can make higher education more cost effective,” he said. “We have the opportunity to do something that will improve teaching and make learning easier on this campus.”
The idea for the Learning Systems Center came about in 1971, when the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning appointed a Task Force on Educational Technology to assess the future impact of modern educational technology on higher education.
2 Planning Boards Named by Hubbard
President John R. Hubbard has appointed the two key boards of the new University Council committee system.
One is the Academic Planning Board to coordinate the academic and financial matters which formerly were the responsibility of the Advisory Committee on Academic Planning.
The other is the Human Resources and Environment Planning Board, which will include student life, personnel, affirmative action and the university cultural environment.
THEIR PURPOSE is to foresee long-range issues and major policy questions.
While a variety of committees and commissions will deal with particular problems, the planning boards may provide coordination, suggest studies, or offer their own comments to the committees, to the University Council, or to the president.
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Volume LXVI, Number 53
Warren Report Refuted In JFK Murder Research
DAVID LIFTON
BY SHERRIE STRAUSFOGEL
The creation of a university-wide Learning Systems Center is the answer to the rising cost of tuition, a panel on education suggests.
“Costs are going up and tuition is going up.” said Jack Munushian, chairman of the University's Task Force on Educational Technology. “The only way to combat this is to make better use of our teaching resources.”
The aim of the center, which will probably be established at the university in late spring, is to make teaching more productive for less money.
THE TASK FORCE re commends that the center be
BY PATRICIA NOONAN
Evidence supporting a political conspiracy in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy was presented Wednesday night in Edison Auditorium.
The presentation was given by David Lifton, a former simulation engineer for the Apollo Program. It was based on the supposition that there was a conspiracy either from within or outside ofthe Warren Commission to cover up the assassination.
Lifton has been engaged in researching the assassination for the past five years. His research has consisted mainly of the investigative materials of the Warren Commission now on file at the U.S. National Archives in Washington D.C.
THESE MATERIALS included audio tape collections of local and network radio stations which covered the assassination from Dallas, films from the National Archives and major media libraries, and testimonials from witnesses of the assassination.
Throughout his presentation. Lifton used his collected evidence to refute the Warren Commission's statement that “all the shots which caused the President’s and Governor (John) Connally’s (of Texas) wounds were fired from the sixth-floor window” and that “Oswald acted alone.”
Lifton's hypothesis is that there was more than one assassin. The Abraham Zapruder film of the assassination showed that the fatal shot to Kennedy’s head snapped the head back, suggesting that the momentum of the bullet was from the
front instead of from behind where Lee Harvey Oswald was located when the shot was fired, Lifton said.
Because Kennedy was hit in the back of the neck and almost simultaneously Connally was hit, the Warren Commission eliminated the possibility oftwo men firing by proposing that one bullet went through both men. said Lifton.
ACCORDING TO the commission, the same bullet went through Kennedy’s neck to Connally’s shoulder and out Connally’s chest to his wrist, and then finally lodged itself in Connally’s left knee.
Having studied the bullet at the National Archives, Lifton found that it was highly unlikely that the bullet could have shattered bone in Connally’s wrist, which it reputedly did. The bullet on display at the Archives is hardlv disfigured. But if that
•Toys for Tots’ Boxes Set Up
Giving was the theme Thursday, as uniformed Marines, businessmen and students gathered in front of Tommy Trojan to initiate the collection of toys for the Marine Corps Reserve “Toys for Tots” campaign, sponsored on campus by the business fraternity. Alpha Kappa Psi.
Collection boxes have been set up in front of Tommy Trojan, in Town and Gown, the Student Activities Center, the business school, the Student Union and in eight other locations on campus.
DT photo by Michael Sedano.
wasn’t the bullet which also hit Kennedy, then the question of where the bullet is yet remains, Lifton said.
He cited the findings of Robert A. Frazier, a FBI firearms expert who tested the bolt-action rifle used by Oswald to determine the minimum time possible between a first and second firing.
Frazier found that at least 2.3 seconds were required between shots. This time limit when correlated with that of the Zapruder film makes it impossible for Kennedy and Connally to be hit within a second of each other by the same gun, Lifton explained.
LIFTON IS skeptical ofthe autopsy report filed to the commission by Dr. James J. Humes, from Bethesda Naval Hospital of Bethesda, Maryland. He said that Humes revised the first draft
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